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Years ago, a brash young man, visiting in the Beacon Street home of Godfrey Lowell Cabot, asked his host how it felt to be both a Lowell and a Cabot. The question was greeted with thunderous silence. The guest tried manfully to excuse his faux pas. "I'm afraid," he murmured, "that's a pretty silly question, Mr. Cabot." Replied Cabot: "Young man. it's the damnedest silliest question I've been asked in 80 years...
...indeed, for being a Cabot and a Lowell in Boston was not a feeling, but a state of being. Yet Godfrey Lowell Cabot was remarkable even for a member of Boston's two most famed families. He was not content to peer down from Beacon Hill and mourn, like the late George Apley, the passing of Victorian glory. He moved into the outside world and modern times with astonishing vigor and effectiveness, and he left behind him his own highly personal mark...
...haven't a zest for living." Cabot said, ''you weren't brought up right." He had enough zest for a dozen men, inherited from his father, Samuel Cabot, a physician (Harvard 1836). "About 79 years ago," said Godfrey Cabot one day in 1950, "my father told me that man is going to fly, and when he flies he will fly farther and faster than the birds. My father was a very farseeing man." Godfrey Cabot was bitten by the flying bug shortly after the Wright brothers lifted off a hill at Kitty Hawk. After the outbreak...
Cabot's philanthropic gifts ran to millions-they included amounts for scientific research on bad-weather flying and the uses of solar energy. But Cabot was not a man to toss money about thoughtlessly. "Godfrey," said a friend, "would give his shirt if he thought you needed it and you hadn't asked for it. But ask him for something and, well, he sort of got his back...
...Godfrey Lowell Cabot '82, Harvard's oldest living alumnus, died yesterday at his Beacon Hill home. He was 101. Cabot was founder and ex-chairman of the Godfrey L. Cabot Ink Co., and served as honorary president of the New England Citizens' Crime Commission...